Website Vulnerability Detection: Inception of Mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats

There are four basic stages of Advanced Persistent Threat attacks Study, Spear, Search and Sabotage. The study stage is executed with intent to acquire as much information as possible about attack target through various methods. One of the most successful methods is to gather the vulnerabilities of the target website. To counter the APTs the very basic solution is to detect the vulnerabilities present in the website and build an attack proof website to further shorten the chance of APT attacks. Vulnerability is a weakness that exists in the computer component upon exploiting which the attacker can adversely affect on integrity, confidentiality and availability of the computer component. This paper presents the methods of detecting the website vulnerabilities and methods of eliminating them. The vulnerability detection could be the most profitable method in the direction of preventing the APTs attack